HR Technology Analyst

Job Description General Motors is seeking a Senior Workday Functional Analyst with strong expertise in Workday Core HCM, Offboarding, Terminations, and Business Process configuration to support and enhance our Workday environment. This role will have a strong focus on the employee separation lifecycle, including voluntary and involuntary terminations, offboarding activities, rescinds and corrections, security access, notifications, and downstream impacts to HR and Payroll processes. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience configuring and supporting Workday Termination and Offboarding Business Processes, troubleshooting complex separation scenarios, and partnering with HR, Payroll, Benefits, Security, and IT teams to ensure employee exits are processed accurately, securely, and efficiently. Key Responsibilities • Configure, maintain, and enhance Workday Core HCM, with a strong focus on Termination, Offboarding, End Employment, and employee separation processes. • Configure and support the Termination Business Process, including initiation, routing, approvals, condition rules, validations, notifications, To Dos, integrations, and Business Process Security Policies. • Configure and maintain Workday Offboarding processes and journeys, including tasks assigned to employees, managers, HR, Payroll, IT, Security, and other applicable stakeholders. • Support voluntary and involuntary termination scenarios, ensuring appropriate routing and processing based on termination reason, worker type, organization, location, and other business requirements. • Troubleshoot complex termination and offboarding issues, including incorrect effective dates, termination dates, last day of work, pay-through dates, reason codes, eligibility rules, and incomplete or incorrectly routed tasks. • Support rescinding, correcting, and reprocessing termination events while evaluating the impact on employee data and downstream processes. • Analyze the downstream impact of termination transactions on Payroll, Benefits, Compensation, Time Tracking, Absence, Security, Recruiting, and integrations. • Partner with Payroll and Benefits teams to ensure termination events appropriately trigger or support final pay, benefit termination, time-off processing, and other separation-related activities. • Partner with Security and IT teams to support appropriate system access removal, account deactivation, equipment return, and other access-related offboarding activities. • Configure and maintain termination-related notifications, alerts, questionnaires, documents, To Dos, and approval steps. • Maintain and enhance termination reasons, sub-reasons, eligibility rules, validation rules, and condition rules supporting different employee populations and separation scenarios. • Support employee lifecycle transactions associated with offboarding, including End Contingent Worker Contract and other worker separation events, where applicable. • Review and troubleshoot stuck, incomplete, cancelled, rescinded, or incorrectly routed termination and offboarding Business Processes. • Develop and utilize Workday reports and calculated fields to monitor upcoming and completed terminations, outstanding offboarding activities, process exceptions, and data quality. • Perform testing for termination and offboarding enhancements, including unit testing, regression testing, negative testing, and end-to-end employee separation scenarios. • Support Workday production issues and serve as a Tier escalation contact for complex Core HCM, Termination, and Offboarding issues. • Review automatically available functionality delivered through Workday R1/R2 releases, assess impacts to termination and offboarding processes, and support regression testing. • Review and disposition setup-req